Farscape musings

[timepiececlock]

I just watched one of the last few scenes of Farscape's episode A Constellation Of Doubt.

And you know what? I loved season 4. I still love it as much as I did when I first watched it all. Obsessed!John who would sell the world and all the races of the galaxy to tyranny and enslavement just to get Aeryn back? I loved it. I was shocked and suprised by his character going that far, and also loved it because I wasn't as shocked by him as a good person should be shocked by his actions. Because I the viewer had been there with John Crichton over the course of the previous 4 years, and I know exactly how he came to be the way that he's become. And watching his character is a marvel.

Pretty, pretty Sikozu who is both insidious and yet sincere? Loved it. The whole trip to Earth? Loved it. Also still kind of can't believe they actually went there---something I'd always assumed would be left to fanfic, especially after they kinda did it in A Human Reaction. The way the entire dynamics of the crew by now have changed and formed and been broken down only to reform again in a different dynamic? Loved it. All those crazy complex plot threads that made continuity in viewing an absolute essential or your brain was toast? Loved it. John's stupid cowboy speech to the alien war council? Loved it.

Since watching saavathrough her journal entries as she discoverFarscape, I've finally had some exposure to FS fandom opinions. My fandom exposure to FS as I watched season 4 mostly consisted of reading eliade and spikespiegel's journal entries an various amounts of commenting. So I was blissfully unaware of what most people thought, or what people were complaining about and why they disliked season 4. When I first realized this, I was more like "What do you mean, you didn't like it?"

Now, seeing the bits of this episode after not having watched any season 4 eps pretty much since the show ended many months ago... I turned instantly into the squeally fangirl I was back then, and started gushing to my dad about OMGHowMuchILoveThisShowI'mGonnaMakeYouWatchTheWholeThingOneDay.

Season 4 a downer? Frell that. Sometimes, folks you just have to step back from the computer a while, and let yourself experience something without the views of others. You might find yourself in love with it.


P.S. Silly misguided people; how could you NOT love season 4?!? No, don't answer that. I don't want to know, and I would never believe it anyway.

Comments

[thenyxie.livejournal.com]

Farscape is one of the only shows that consistently kicked ass, held tight plots and only got better and better as it went along. I think I only recall hating one episode, ever, which was S2's "Taking the Stone". Four seasons, and that's my only complaint. I still cannot believe they cancelled it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I saw that episode much later, out of context, and wasn't really that excited by the plot or the guest alien species of the week. But I thought stoned John was kinda funny, and I loved Chiana ripping into him about "I'm not your little sister or little poor friend and stop trying to take care of me!"

[kimera.livejournal.com]

I miss my show =( I miss squeeing over new episodes and sharing wildcrazy theories with jarodrussell, I miss watching new episodes every week for a year after a Canadian station finally started airing it.

I wish the DVDs weren't so hard to find (and that I could afford them, heh), or I'd buy the ones I'm missing. SIGH.

[raghnaid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, how could you not love Season 4? I always thought it was a fitting end. Premature, sure, but fitting. I came to the whole thing really, really late in Season 3 because that was right about when my house got the TiVo and there was finally time to record it and watch it. And then SciFi replayed the whole series from the Premiere and I got all caught up and totally crazy about it. I don't think I'd buy anyone's objections to Season 4, either.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the miniseries-- I felt so cheated by the ending. All the wya up to that it was wodnerful... and then BAM! Nothing.

[raghnaid.livejournal.com]

And wasn't there talk about an animated something? By the same guy who created Samurai Jack . . .

Yes, the end felt very "well guys, we gotta stop now."

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Actually, that wasn't it. Because I knew before I watched it that that *wasn't* supposed to end the show. They had a whole fifth season planned before they were cancelled without warning. So when I watched it seem to wrap up many things, I thought "Oh, maybe it won't be so bad that they have to cut it off here; at least there's some resolution..." and then the last minute and a half happened, and I was scarred as a tv fan. And I was angry and asking "why didn't they just cut it before that point?" But then it was pointed out to me that maybe they left it on as the production company giving the finger to the network for cancelling them. I guess I kinda see that.

[saava.livejournal.com]

Well, since I asked about it not once, but twice, I know what people's objections to S4 were. And they're vaild and well thought-out reasons. I just don't happen to agree. *g* I think a lot of the stuff that was left dangling and unexplained WOULD have been explained had the show been able to run its intended course.

But I loved it. Hell, if Ben and Claudia were in a room together reading the phonebook aloud, I'd probably love it because their chemisty is just that potent and they're able to sell me on most everything.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I would pay a ticket price for Phonebook Reading Sessions.
"I'll take government, you take residential."

"Then who gets business?"

"We'll trade off and read from the same book, and everyone will Oooh and Aaah."

[spikespeigel.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm hoping that Sci Fi bumped Farscape to 11 instead of midnight because they're in negotiation with Brian Henson and David Kemper to bring the Farscape mini to Sci Fi. After all, I think it deserves to finish out where it started. I really can't see it syndicated on my local WB. That just seems weird.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Farscape on the WB? If only they had picked it up when it was faltering a year ago.